Paper fastener



B. H. FREEDMAN.

PAPER FASTENER.

APPLICATLON FILED OCT. 7, 1921.

Patented July 25, 1922.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1922.

Application filed October 7, 1921. Serial No. 506,082.

T 0 all to 7mm it may concern Be it known that I, BENJAMIN H. FREED-MAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county,and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Paper Fasteners, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a device intended to secure together a numberof sheets of pa per and the object of the invention is to provide adevice of this character which will be extremely simple in construction;which can be readily placed in position to securely retain together anumber of sheets; which will in no manner mar or deface the sheets towhich it is attached, and which may be readily removed when desired.

"With these objects, and other objects which may hereinafter appear, inview, I have derived the particular arrangement of parts hereinafter setforth and more particularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming a parthereof, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank from which myimproved paper fastener is made;

Figure 2 is a plan view of a paper fastener in its folded position toreceive the sheets which it is adapted to secure together;

Figure 3 is a plan view of my improved paper fastener applied to anumber of sheets of paper, before the fastener is folded to secure thesheets together;

Figure 4 is a view of the paper fastener in its final position, holdingtogether a number of sheets;

Figure 5 is a sectional view on the line 5-5 of Figure 2, looking in thedirection of the arrows;

Figure 6 is an elevation of my improved paper fastener, looking at theside opposite to that disclosed in Figure 4; and

Figure 7 is a sectional view on the line 77 of Figure 6, looking in thedirection of the arrows.

The similar reference characters appearing throughout the various viewsof the drawing indicate similar parts.

In the preferred embodiment of my in vention as disclosed in theaccompanying drawing, 1 indicates the blank from which my improved paperfastener is made. It will be seen that this blank 1 is rounded at oneend as at 2, to provide a face plate 3 o the device. The blank is foldedupon the diagonal lines at, l, to provide a pair of wings 5, 5, whichoverlie the corners of the sheets of paper to be secured together aswill be hereinafter set forth.

Each of the wings 5 has its tip or corners 6 inturned or doubled over onthe line 7, whereby portions of the wings are of double thickness, thusproviding rigidity to these wings and aiding-the papers to be placedreadily in the fastener.

To place the device in position it will be seen that the sheets of paper,8, to be fastened together, simply have their corners slid under thewings 5. This is done very readily, whereby the papers 8 and thefastener are in the position disclosed in Figure 3. To finally completethe operation of securing the papers firmly together, the fastener,together with the papers held therein, is folded on the line 9, whichcauses the device to assume the position disclosed in Figures a, 6 and 7with the paper firmly held together.

It will be seen that on one of the sides the paper fastener presents thesmooth face 3 which may be stamped or embossed with the name or trademark of the concern using the fasteners, or bear other subject matter.The opposite face 10 of the fastener also presents a smooth, unbrokensurface which cannot mar or deface the papers secured together. Thefastener is preferably made of a thin, flexible sheet metal ofsu'liicient rigidity to retain the positions to which its various partsare folded and retain the papers firmly and securely together.

From the foregoing it is obvious that my invention is not to berestricted to the exact embodiment shown, but is broad enough to coverall structures coming within the scope of the annexed claims.

What I claim is 1. A paper fastener comprising a thin sheet metal plate,having its opposite corners inwardly bent at an angle to form wingswhich overlie the sheets of paper to be fastened together, said wingshaving their ends bent back to form portions on said wings of doublethickness. 1

2. A paper fastener comprising a sheet of thin metal doubled upon itselfto form a fiat face-plate, and a pair of wings opposed to said face andoverlying the corners of the sheets to be fastened together,togetherwith the ends of said Wings being doubled on themselves to formportions of double thickness.

3. A paper fastener comprising a sheet metal plate having a pair ofwings inwardly bent to overlie sheets of paper to be secured together,said wings having points doubled over to form portions on said Wings ofdouble thickness.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York, this 10th day ofAugust, 1921.

BENJAMIN H. FREEDMAN.

